Hi,
Here is the solution we use.
For this situation we have on our postfix SMTP servers local accounts that
handle this.
Once the issue is over you can simple delete the user account on the server.
The accounts .forward file contains
| ~/bin/mail_respond
I run these commands
RAN useradd -m <insert username>
RAN su - <insert username>
RAN mkdir bin
RAN mkdir conf
RAN mkdir log
RAN mkdir mailbox
Then i have files i insert
/home/<insert username>/bin/mail_respond
/home/<insert username>/conf/reply.msg
I also have mapping setup to send emails to u...@mydomain.com to user@localhost
The script mail_respond logs each time an email was forwarded and all details
about it.
Here is basics of it from pulling out comments:
#!/usr/bin/python
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# About
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Tell sender that their intendend recipient, <insert username>, is no
# longer at the University.
#
# The reply DOES NOT include the original subject.
#
# The Email response template is stored in REPLY below.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Imports
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Config
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Get home directory for this user
# Directories for storage, logging and configuration
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Function
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Log message
# Extract the sender's email address from the first line of the raw email text:
# it looks like this "From EMAIL-ADDR
# Convert mail header time format to user readable
# First, parse input string for time zone
# Cannot parse input time string, so just return it unchanged
# Adjust for time zone
# Parse remaining time string
# Return reformatted time
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Main
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Make sure needed files and directory exist
# Read incoming mail
# Parse incoming email
# Get reply address
-Angelo Fazzina
Operating Systems Programmer / Analyst
University of Connecticut, UITS, SSG, Server Systems
860-486-9075
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org]
On Behalf Of @lbutlr
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 7:49 AM
To: Postfix users <postfix-users@postfix.org>
Subject: Autoresponder?
I have an email account that belonged to someone who died recently. Rather than
simply shutdown the account and bounce all future emails, the family would like
some sort of automated messages for at least a few months saying something like
“<Name> died in November, 2016. Please redirect emails to <another address>”.
I think this is a bad idea and they should just keep checking the current
address of another month or six, but I did say I’d ask.
So, how would I do this with only sending a single ‘bounce’ to any email
address?
I have gone through an unsubscribed from all the legitimate mailing lists like
amazon and such.
Thankfully, there is not a lot of spam on this account.
I feel I’m missing something obvious.
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